Sense-objects are pleasurable only as dependent on the Atman
manifesting through them, and not independently, because the Atman is by
Its very nature the most beloved of all. Therefore the Atman is ever
blissful, and never suffers misery.

That in profound sleep we experience the bliss of the Atman independent
of sense-objects, is clearly attested by the Shruti, direct perception,
tradition and inference. श्रीमद आदि शंकराचार्य द्वारा रचित विवेक-चूड़ामणि Vivek-Chudamani by Shrimad Adi Shankaracharya

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“But whatever can be described cannot be your self, and what you are cannot be described. You can only know your self by being yourself without any attempt at self-definition and self-description.

Once you have understood that you are nothing perceivable or conceivable, that whatever appears in the field of consciousness cannot be your self, you will apply yourself to the eradication of all self-identification, as the only way that can take you to a deeper realisation of your self. You literally progress by rejection — a veritable rocket.

To know that you are neither in the body nor in the mind, though aware of both, is already self-knowledge.”

— Nisargadatta (I Am That, Ch.99) - On the pointer of the perceived not being the perceiver, and likewise the impossibility of objectifying the self (Atma).